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04-25-2008, 12:00 PM
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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Arlington, MA
Distribution: Slackware, Debian, OpenBSD
Posts: 194
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xpdf and missing fonts
Good day, all -
For a number of reasons I have been doing more work with PDF files of late and have noticed I have a problem with xpdf on my Slackware install ... essentially, it doesn't seem to be rendering fonts correctly, or maybe I should say finding fonts correctly. In order to start troubleshooting, I tried firing it up from the cl on a particularly troublesome document and got this:
chexmix@catbutt:~$ xpdf RecyclingGuide.pdf
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-BoldItalic'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
Error: Couldn't create a font for 'Times-Roman'
... the first time I've seen it complain about THAT font, but whatever.
I checked in the /etc directory and noticed there was an .xpdfrc.new file I hadn't accounted for, so I merged that in, but am still having this problem.
Anyone else seen anything like it? I checked for prior posts on this issue in the Slack forum and there were hits, but they were years old.
Thanks.
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04-25-2008, 07:23 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Distribution: Slackware-current
Posts: 2,743
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I suggest that you edit your /etc/xpdfrc file and change the display fonts section to point to the location of your ghostscript fonts. I have:
Code:
displayFontT1 Times-Roman /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n021003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-Italic /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n021023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-Bold /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n021004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Times-BoldItalic /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n021024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-Oblique /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-Bold /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Helvetica-BoldOblique /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n019024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022003l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-Oblique /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022023l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-Bold /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022004l.pfb
displayFontT1 Courier-BoldOblique /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/n022024l.pfb
displayFontT1 Symbol /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/s050000l.pfb
displayFontT1 ZapfDingbats /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/d050000l.pfb
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04-26-2008, 12:13 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Distribution: Slackware-current
Posts: 2,743
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I have looked at this again, and realised that /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/ is actually a symlink to /usr/share/libwmf/fonts/.
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04-26-2008, 07:22 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Arlington, MA
Distribution: Slackware, Debian, OpenBSD
Posts: 194
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Thanks so much - I will take a look at this. :^)
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04-27-2008, 06:44 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Arlington, MA
Distribution: Slackware, Debian, OpenBSD
Posts: 194
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hmmm ...
Interesting, I not only don't have
/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/
I don't have
/usr/share/fonts/default/
either.
I guess I will go ahead and create that symlink, but it makes me wonder what I missed and how, and what else might be MIA.
Thanks.
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04-27-2008, 08:29 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Distribution: Slackware-current
Posts: 2,743
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I suggest that you run 'locate n021003l.pfb' and see if the font file is on your disk.
These fonts are in the 'libwmf' package and the 'ghostscript-fonts' package. They may be installed in a different directory.
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04-27-2008, 08:34 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2007
Distribution: Slackware64-14.0
Posts: 2,188
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chexmix, I don't have that either. It doesn't exist in a default Slackware 12.0 setup. It shouldn't affect anything as far as I know. Those fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/Type1 for me (or /usr/share/libwmf/fonts). Try those instead.
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04-27-2008, 08:49 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Arlington, MA
Distribution: Slackware, Debian, OpenBSD
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Quote:
Originally Posted by allend
I suggest that you run 'locate n021003l.pfb' and see if the font file is on your disk.
These fonts are in the 'libwmf' package and the 'ghostscript-fonts' package. They may be installed in a different directory.
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I should have been more explicit / complete with my post: I found the fonts where you said the symlink pointed:
/usr/share/libwmf/fonts/
but I didn't have the symlink 'r the directory in which to create the symlink. I guess it will be a pretty easy fix. :^)
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08-02-2008, 10:00 AM
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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Arlington, MA
Distribution: Slackware, Debian, OpenBSD
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Very belated reply ... it WAS an easy fix ...  |
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